The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-03
Local and State Notes.

| Leslie Farmer, general passenger agent of the
| Erie road, has appointed Geo. E. Allen the COM
panys Northern passenger agent. to take effect
| Jan. |.
| The Vandalia last month brought into Indian
| apolis 3 l28 carloads of block coal, being the
heaviest shipments of any month in the last
three years.
In the month OF November 27,8S0 pieces of
baggage handled at the Union Depot; OF
this number Q 260 were checked out from 1ndi-
annapolis proper.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois road. which
extends from Chicago to Terre Haute, is fling
at county-seats along its line a mortgage
the road for SIS, 000, 000
railroad company to be known the Peoria
& Michigan has filed articles of Incorporation
with the Secretary of State of Illinois. The
CAPITAL stock is SO, 600. 600.
The Belt Road Company is preparing to tear
down the large wooden water tanks N it's
yards, and put in their places immense iron tanks
resting on an iron structure. The Improvements
will cost $40. 900.
r. Curtis, whose death was announced in the
Journal a morning OF two ago. had been master
mechanic of the Panhandle lines since 1867 and
prior to that draughtsman in the COM
panys designing office
The Belt Road Company last month delivered
to and hauled off of private switches its
line 2.663 loaded cars In this statement is in
cluded $40 carloads of material delivered to the
Indianapolis car-works.
The switchmen of the Nickel-plate road To-
Gated at Fort Wayne have asked for an increase
of So per month in their salaries. This is ali the
ground there is for rumor that the switch
men about to strike
j. NJ. Miller, general freight and passenger
agent of the Bellaire, GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati
road, has resigned and L. NJ Hobart, we'll
known in Indianapolis railroad circles, has been
appointed acting successor.
District Passenger Agent Hendry. of the A,
I. & s. F., yesterday notified that the
blockade on passenger traffic at Kansas City had
been removed and the passenger equipment was
ample TO care for all the travel.
The Pennsylvania Company last month
handled at their Indianapolis city freight depots
"a 800 GAP pounds of freight, representing 2,0O7
cars against q: 074,313 pounds the correspond
ing week last year. representing 239o cars.
1t is announced that there will be no further
reduction in livestock rates east until an at
tempt has been made TO adjust the relations be-
tween the Chicago Il Grand Trunk and its COM
petitors for the livestock traffic from the West.
j. @. Everest has been appointed general
travelling agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee q
ST. Paul with headquarters at Chicago. All
district passenger agents are TO report to him.
The appointment will go into effect Jan. l. 1888.
The Detroit Bridge Company has been award
ed the contract for building the new bridge of
the Vandalia over the Wabash river, just west
of Terre Haute. 1t is to be an iron and steel
combination structure, about i, 500 feet long in
Gliding the approaches.
The l., D. e S.-Mackev deal is said to have
been declared off. When Mr. Mackey got down
to busne ss he wanted to pay for the L. d. Sc S.
road in consolidated bond resting the
Peoria Decatur & Evansville and the Indianap-
oils & Springfield. The latter company declined
to enter into any such arrangement.
In the case of F. ]. Wolfe of Mitchell Ind,
who sued the L., n. A. & c. Company for $780,
900 for being elected from one of their trains,
Judge Ferguson decided that where a passenger
uses obscene language in the presence of lady
passengers, a conductor has the legal right to
eject such offender from the anywhere on the
road.
The Pennsylvania Company is fitting up two
trains at Altoona with steam heating appara-
tus of its own device. One train will be run on
the eastern system and another on the western.
pected it WILL it will be placed in every passen-
ger coach on its lines The company has
three thousand passenger
The New York Mail and Express says there is
some rather sharp criticism the policy of the
Chicago q Indiana Coal road declaring a diyi- J
dend. The action, the Mail SAYS, seems hasty. |
This company had. at the close of the last fiscal
year, surplus of less than $25 900. Since then /
there have been further issues of bonds, and the
charge for interest Is now $1S4, so per annum,
or over $13, 900 per month. The earnings of the |
company for the first ten months OF the fiscal |
were 1904. $50. or $3O. 900 per month, and |
believes that coal road. with a comparatively |
light traffic can be operated on so per cent. of |
tine gross earnings. At any rate after paying |
fixed charges and operating expenses. the earn
ings will not he sufficient to warrant the paving |
Of per cent per aunum dividend on 81 ,465, 900 |
stock.
c. road, has proposed to the Cincinnati, Wabash ,
& Michigan company to join hands with them
and build the link between Anderson and Rush
vile, necessary to connect the c., w. & NJ with /
the Big Four system. Through such connection
the G., w. & II. would a sixteen-mil
shorter route from northern Michigan to Louis
vllle Ky, than any now existing, and one
mile shorter route to Cincinnati Should Pres
ldent lpgalls's scheme be carried out it would
not affect the relations between the c.. w. 81